Access To Installutil.installlog Is Denied When Installing A Windows Service

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Attempting to install SQL Server 2008 R2, Standard, Developer Edition, and/or Express on Windows 7 Enterprise, I keep getting 'Access is denied' at the very end of the installation.Contents of log:Configuration error code: 0xDC80C325Configuration error description: Access is deniedI've tried these suggestions with no success:r-2008-permission-denied-errorsEven our system administrator logging in as the local machine administrator is unable to complete the installation or give rights to/change the local debug policy (as suggested in the above links).Thanks for any information. Here is a solution for this.This failure often is caused by a system or domain policy removing the SeDebugPrivelege security privilege from the administrator account running setup. Verify that the account running has this privilege.The AccessChk tool will print all privleges for an account by running:accesschk.exe -a.Alternatively, we can check this through your group policy editor as mentioned below:Open Group Policy.Start Run Type: gpedit.msc OK Navigate toComputer ConfigurationWindows SettingsSecurity SettingsLocal PoliciesUser Rights AssignmentDebug programsThe account through which we are trying to run the setup should be here ( besides the local admin on that machine). I included that here, restarted the server ( this is mandatory, gpupdate /force will not work) and ran the setup and it was successful this time.SQL Server 2008 setup needs this privilege to start up the SQL Server process and listen to an event that signals back to setup that SQL Server successfully started.